“Raun Thorp of Los Angeles’s Tichenor & Thorp warns against the unflattering glow of exposed-filament bulbs.”

"These vintage pieces are more modern than a desk these days,” said Los Angeles architect Raun Thorp. As more people store documents on a cloud and reduce their computer hardware...”

“It acts as a short ‘column’ to add architecture to a room, without the constraints of a completely vertical division”

“MYdrap biodegradable cotton napkins can be washed six times before you toss them, said Raun L. Thorp, of New York architects Tichenor & Thorp. They’re available in multiple sizes and colors, “and they come on a roll!”

“Unless youre trying to re-create the colors of Switzerland in summer, impatiens are hard to use well in almost any garden, said M. Brian Tichenor, of Tichenor and Thorp Architects, in Los Angeles. Despite this drawback, impatiens prevail, he said, because they grow just about anywhere.”

“At about 13, I decided—and convinced my sister to collude—to connect our two rooms by a passageway through the closets. That involved drilling and using various tools appropriated from my father’s workbench. I concealed the progress with Wizard of Oz posters on both sides. The “work” wasn’t discovered until the house, in Newport Beach, was on the market about 10 years later.”